Agios O Theos- Mode 1

Hymn 1, Theodoros Vassilikos, Agni Parthene

Hymn sung on Tuesday evening during the Bridegroom Matins service in Holy Week in Eastern Orthodox Churches around the world.  Here is a link to the music for this particular version. http://www.antiochian.org/sites/default/files/mgf_0192a.holyweek.kassiani.pdf

Hymn Of The Repentant Sinful Woman

The Prayer of St Ephrem the Syrian is said many times throughout the Orthodox Lenten period and is accompanied by several prostrations.  The prayer has slightly different variations between jurisdictions, this version of the prayer most closely resembles that used by the Orthodox Church of America.  Cover:  "Bridegroom" Icon written by Khouria Janet Peters.

Prayer of St Ephrem

Troparion - Behold the Bridegroom Comes (Fr. Apostolos Hill)

Rejoice O Bethany - Byzantine Chant For St. Lazarus

Sun of Justice: Byzantine Chant for Christmas in Greek, Arabic, and English
Artists: PRÓTO:: John Michael, Rev. John Rassem El Massih
Label: Cappella Romana Media (CR417)
2-Disc CD Set
Buy Now: http://www.cappellaromana.org/product/sun-of-justice/

Cappella Romana Media combines passion with scholarship in its exploration of early and contemporary music of the Christian East and West.

Featuring classical chants in Greek primarily by Petros Peloponnesios (1730–1778). Adaptations into Arabic primarily by Mitri El Murr (1880–1969) and those into English by John Michael Boyer (b. 1978) closely echo the originals in form, style, and grace.

This debut release by PRÓTO presents traditional chants for the Byzantine celebration of Christmas, including selections from The Royal Hours, Vespers, Matins, and the Divine Liturgy. A deluxe 32-page booklet is included with full texts in Greek, Arabic, and English.

PRÓTO is a collaboration of two protopsaltes (“first cantors”): John Michael Boyer, Protopsaltis of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco; and the Reverend Deacon John Rassem El Massih, Protopsaltis of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America. Teir shared vision is excellence in traditional Byzantine Music as well as the advancement, development, and composition of traditional Byzantine Music in the English language.

Sun of Justice: Byzantine Chant for Christmas in Greek, Arabic, and English

“Today the Virgin” Kontakion of Christmas Day, Greek & Arabic

Axion Cuvine-se gl 3 Orthodox Byzantine Chant

Verses from the Psalms

მართალთა ლიტურგია - სიმონოპეტრას მონასტერი

                              

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Now the God of hope fill you all with joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. (Romans 15, 13)

The love for our fellow-men, but mainly the love of Truth, the divine Truth revealed in the Person of the incarnate Word, Christ our God, has moved the hearts of the Athonite fathers to give in to the request of ever more faithful to create, be it in the digital space, a website where those wanting to find out  about the views of the Athonite fathers on various current issues of spiritual life can do it easily.

The danger caused by the multitude of heresies of our days, as well as the growing confusion among Orthodox believers, generated by the negative impact of the secularization of today’s society, urged the Athonite fathers to take on the fight and confess the Truth.

Spirited by the divine love burning in their hearts and by the hope of victory in this fight, strengthened by the shadow of the Almighty, the strugglers of Orthodoxy lay down their souls for their brothers in Christ and preach the divine word “in season and out of season”.

May this their offering be accepted before God and bear rich harvest in the heavenly  “barns”.

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AthoniteTestimony.com

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